pdf in Internet Explorer is not working

[nhieb]

Hey guys, i hope somebody knows what i am doing wrong. I am using iText with Seam to create a dynamic pdf document.
The pdf is fine while viewing it in Firefox, but when i am trying to view pdf in Internet Explorer, it shows only header and doesn't render the rest of the document.
Here are my configs :
components.xml

<components xmlns="http://jboss.com/products/seam/components"
 xmlns:core="http://jboss.com/products/seam/core"
 xmlns:framework="http://jboss.com/products/seam/framework"
 xmlns:drools="http://jboss.com/products/seam/drools"
 xmlns:security="http://jboss.com/products/seam/security"
 xmlns:mail="http://jboss.com/products/seam/mail"
 xmlns:web="http://jboss.com/products/seam/web"
 xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
 xmlns:pdf="http://jboss.com/products/seam/pdf"
 xsi:schemaLocation="http://jboss.com/products/seam/core http://jboss.com/products/seam/core-1.2.xsd
 http://jboss.com/products/seam/drools http://jboss.com/products/seam/drools-1.2.xsd
 http://jboss.com/products/seam/security http://jboss.com/products/seam/security-1.2.xsd
 http://jboss.com/products/seam/mail http://jboss.com/products/seam/mail-1.2.xsd
 http://jboss.com/products/seam/web http://jboss.com/products/seam/web-1.2.xsd
 http://jboss.com/products/seam/components http://jboss.com/products/seam/components-1.2.xsd
 http://jboss.com/products/seam/framework http://jboss.com/products/seam/framework-1.2.xsd">
...
<pdf:documentStore useExtensions="true" errorPage="/pdfMissing.seam"/>

...

web.xml

....
<servlet>
 <servlet-name>Document Store Servlet</servlet-name>
 <servlet-class>org.jboss.seam.pdf.DocumentStoreServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>
 <servlet-name>Document Store Servlet</servlet-name>
 <url-pattern>*.pdf</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

I am using backing bean defined as

@Name("pdfBean")
@Scope(ScopeType.PAGE)
public class PDF implements Serializable
...

calling the pdf

<s:link id="link_pdf_details"
 action="#{pdfBean.init}"
 view="/pdfView.xhtml"
 target="_blank">
 <h:graphicImage value="/img/printpdf.png"/>
 <f:param name="id" value="#{id}"/>
</s:link>

Does anyone know how to fight that?

[nhieb]

hey i found what was wrong. i saw in documentation that in order to iterate through collection, ui:iterate can be used. So i guess back then i assumed that ui:include can be used as well. i had pdf that was supposed to show either pdf of one style or another. And that was done this way

<p:document xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
 xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
 xmlns:s="http://jboss.com/products/seam/taglib"
 xmlns:p="http://jboss.com/products/seam/pdf"
 xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html">

 <h:panelGroup rendered="#{!pdfBean.defaultStyle}" >
 <ui:include src="/pdf/defaultPDF.xhtml"/>
 </h:panelGroup>

 <h:panelGroup rendered="#{pdfBean.defaultStyle}" >
 <ui:include src="/pdf/anotherStylePDF.xhtml"/>
 </h:panelGroup>


</p:document>

And then each of xhtml documents were a pdf as well. I guess ui:include redirects the request, and now i am wondering why firefox was showing that correctly. anyway, the same thing can be achived this way, and this works in IE (at least on IE7)

<f:view xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
 xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
 xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html">

 <h:panelGroup rendered="#{!pdfBean.defaultStyle}">
 <ui:include src="/pdf/defaultPDF.xhtml"/>
 </h:panelGroup>

 <h:panelGroup rendered="#{pdfBean.defaultStyle}" >
 <ui:include src="/pdf/anotherStylePDF.xhtml"/>
 </h:panelGroup>
</f:view>

I hope it will help somebody someday :)

[norman.richards]

Thanks. I'm not sure exactly what difference it makes, but if you can record a JIRA issue for it, I'll track it down and make sure things work more consistently.

[nhieb]

I created JIRA issue, it can be found here http://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBSEAM-1884. Thanks for ur time, Norman!